PPT-Sentence Diagramming, #9

Not never and negative contractions Contractions Will not wont Do not dont Should not shouldnt Does not doesnt Were not werent You are youre Directions. www.k12reader.co m Sentence Diagramming: Interrogatives Example 1: Where is he going? “He” is performing the action of going, so “he” would be the subject in a sentence diagram, a 56 Greek phrases (or clauses) and found that I rarely needed to divide the phrases further. So when you see the examples of phrasing on the following pages, and if you have “baggage” from picturing. the structure of a sentence. By placing the various parts of a sentence in relation to the basic subject-verb relationship, we can see how the parts fit together and how the meaning of a sentence branches out, just as the branches of a plant ramify from the stem in space and time. Most students who work at diagramming sentences derive a clearer understanding of how sentences work — as well as satisfaction in the pictorial rendering of sentence structure. This presentation touches upon only the basics of diagramming. Use the hyperlinks back to the Guide to Grammar and Writing . Why it . works. Three components of Tactical Diagramming. Science. Planning and building codes. Terrain Analysis. Skill. Building practices and. tactical diagramming practice. Art. Personal intuition, imagination. . contains . one independent clause/ main clause . an. d at least one dependent clause.. Example: .  . The dinner was burned . because she had forgotten it.. Independent c: The dinner was burned. Dependent c: (because) she had forgotten it. Diagramming is the representation of a sentence and its parts of speech in graphical form. Where to begin. Any time you need to diagram a sentence, you always start with the basics and work your way down. The basics would include your subject, verb, and any complements that you have. Let’s just start with a simple sentence that does not have any complements. . Nouns. Definition: A person, a place, a thing, or an idea.. Types:. Pronouns. Subjects. Gerunds. 4. Compound Nouns. 5. Proper Nouns. 6. Object of a Preposition. Pronouns. Definition: Replace nouns, used in papers to avoid subject repetition.. Miss Johnson . Sentence Diagramming. Sentence Diagramming. : a way to see a sentence spatially; to place each word in its appropriate place as though sentences parts were pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Subject – be verb – Adverb of Time or Place. Punctuation and Capitalization. Sentence. . rebekka. like . redding. . novles. righting . poetry and diagraming . sentencs. Word Bank:. capital letter (1). period (1). comma (2). Discuss and Compare. Not, never and negative contractions. Contractions. Will not ~ won’t. Do not ~ don’t. Should not ~ shouldn’t. Does not ~ doesn’t. Were not ~ weren’t. You are ~ you’re. Directions:. Every sentence must have a S (subject) and a V (verb). A subject can be a noun or pronoun. The verb might be one word, two or three words.. To diagram a sentence, start with a base line. Then put a line crossing the middle of the baseline. Diagramming Sentences Adding basic modifiers… Diagramming’s Modifiers go underneath that which they modify… Prime Directive: Adding adjectives… Seldom do we have sentences that only have a subject and verb Agentless Passives and Diagramming the Passive Ed McCorduck English 402--Grammar SUNY Cortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu “ agentless ” passives – sentences in the passive voice that don’t have a CPSC 481 Tutorial 2. 1. Anthony Tang, with acknowledgements to Julie . Kientz. Agenda. Presentation by TA: . 5 . mins. Brainstorm: 5 . mins. Affinity diagramming: 10 . mins. Sketching . a prototype: 30 .